I would suggest going with some woody netinst cd's. I don't have any urls handy, but I'm sure that a quick look at google will show you what you want. I've used both a disk with a 2.4bf kernel flavor which worked quite well and supported everything, and the disk I used to install this laptop was a 2.4.18-xfs plus a bunch of other things. I would highly recommend and xfs install, particularly on a laptop. -Alex
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 08:09, Bill Moseley wrote: > Any tips for a Toshiba 2805-S302 laptop? I'll be doing a network install. > > It's been a while since I installed Debian. Last time I installed woody on > a desktop it took a few tries to get it. > > On my desktop install I used the woody idepci boot disk which had my LAN > driver for that machine. I believe the Toshiba has a Intel 82557 10/100 > EtherPro (from http://pag.lcs.mit.edu/~adonovan/toshiba.html), but not 100% > sure since that's a slightly different model. IIRC, I only need a single > diskette to get to the network install part. I thought there was a list of > files on the idepci disk, but I can't seem to find it now. > > Is the Woody idepci boot disk a good choice to start with? (Or is there a > 2.4 kernel boot disk available?) > > The laptop should be desktop + development. On my last debian woody/sid > experience I didn't use tasksel or dselect. Maybe I just got scared, but > they seemed to install much more than I wanted so I just installed base and > then did apt-get install to load the package. I'm sure that was the hard > way to go. > > The other pain I remember was getting X's fonts to look reasonably OK. I > remember installing true type fonts. I installed font servers, too, which > I'm sure I didn't need to do. Is there a less painful path to get good > looking fonts? > > Thanks very much, > > > -- > Bill Moseley > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
